Hilo -Volcanos, Macademia, visiting a friend

So my definition of a waste - Karena at the Macadamia Factory with lots of free sampling!!! :) Beautiful day! Andrea and I toured the volcano Park with a major character of a bus driver I had been here 20 years ago on my honeymoon. It looks so different. Amazed by how it goes from Rain forest to desert so suddenly because of the volcanic activity

A night out in the Pacific Ocean

Aloha So the other night I finally dined in the formal dining room which we can do once in a while for free. My new friend Andrea from Romania who is the classical piano player on board invited me. We had a great time. It was formal night so we had to get all dressed up. We were treated like royalty visited by the magician who did amazing card tricks that were so good we (softly) screemed and it creeped us out. We had Lobster tails and the waiters do this whole show and sing...When the moon hits your eye.....then we went to the disco, the comedy club the musical and visited all our friends who perform around the ship in different rooms and went to bed too late of course!!!!

We have 5 seadays - brutal for this aquapuncturist - I work many hours. I'm so excited about Hawaii and getting to go to all my favorite islands. Visiting people at 3 out 4 of them.

Out in the middle of the Pacific I'm thinking about Columbus and Ponce de Leon and Magellan and yeah this is way more luxurious ya know hot tubs, fine dining, casino etc... but still just like this is as close to the army as I'll experience it's also as close to feeling like an explorer!! More like Dora I guess. Mahalo

Vancouver

Just landed in Vancouver - Sad to say goodbye to Alaska - it was so beautiful. Fall hit this week and the light on the mountains was incredible. So I'm waiting to get off the ship for a few hours to see some of Vancouver and then we sail for 5 days to Hawaii. Sea days are tough because I work a lot. It's still strange being in my submarine room and having no idea of what it's like up there... still in my pj's! I know we are docked right in downtown so I will write again from the sea here are some pictures....kg